Royston Henry Shaw (11 March 1936 – 14 July 2012)‚ also known as Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw‚ Roy "Mean Machine" Shaw and Roy West‚ was an English millionaire‚ real estate investor‚ author and businessman from the East End of London who was formerly a criminal and Category A prisoner. During the 1970s-1980s‚ Shaw was active in the criminal underworld of London and was frequently associated with the Kray twins. Shaw is best remembered today for his career as a fighter on the unlicensed boxing scene‚ becoming
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The 1992 comedic play ‘Cosi’‚ written by Australian prolific writer‚ Louis Nowra‚ is a play set in 1971 at a mental institution situated in Melbourne. The central protagonist‚ Lewis Riley‚ a young inexperienced director‚ endeavours to direct the inmates in a performance of Mozart’s opera‚ ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’ Throughout ‘Cosi’‚ Nowra displays characters that are characterised as normal‚ but display rare various degrees of “insanity”. Over the course of the play‚ the playwright has encouraged his audience
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IN THE FACE OF BETRAYAL‚ LEWIS DISCOVERS LOYALTY The play ’Cosi’‚ written by Louis Nowra‚ is set in 1971 amidst the chaos of the Vietnam War. Australia’s involvement in the war was a topic of great controversy‚ and being the first televised war‚ reality was brought crashing into the lounge rooms of Australians. The horrific images displayed in people’s homes sparked anger from those involved in the fight against communism and conscription. The loyalty of Australians was heavily tested during
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intervention that is adequate to be implemented the patients care‚ not only that the nurse can maximized what intervention is necessary and can avoid unnecessary intervention‚ hence minimizing nurse efforts thus saving time‚ energy and resources. Sr. C. Roy approach when it comes to decision making and prioritizing needs is based on hierarchal bases perhaps same with Maslow’s but with the emphasis on how far did the patient already have cope-up with its condition‚ as human behavior was studied; when patient
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Is Cosi more about love than madness? Louis Nowra’s comedy Cosi covers the main themes of love and infidelity. The characters within the mental asylum are shown to grasp what truly matters‚ whereas society seems to focus on the Vietnam War. Even though they are mental patients and an asylum is a ‘mad house’ the inmates are ‘normal people who have done extraordinary things’. For instance‚ Lewis’ and Lucy’s relationship is an open relationship. Lucy isn’t into fidelity as reflected by her sexual
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the 1970s (in Così) and the Albanian battle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1790 (in Così Fan Tutte). Wars also involve loyalties and betrayals‚ and their chaos on a grand scale underscores the chaos in the lives of the characters in the opera and the play. (Sue Sherman : English for Year 12) •According to Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte‚ the issue of fidelity is depicted to be an ideal that is never achieved. •Since ‘women are like that’ – the interpretation of ‘così fan tutte’‚ Mozart
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Robert Harrison October 24th‚ 2010 This past Sunday I went to Snyder Moral Baptist church to hear the music of Joel Raney. Joel is a very emotional performer I could tell he is very in touch with God. While I was there I learned that he began his career in Alabama by cutting his teeth on hymns and gospel music. He attended Juilliard School in NYC where he also worked in musical theater for a time. Listening to Joel’s music made me feel closer to God‚ he made me think about the finer things in
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(Hendrickson‚ 2016)‚ Roy Lichtenstein‚ is famous for his series of boldly- colored paintings which parodied comic strips and advertisements. Thanks to his works‚ he was recognised as a leader in the American art world. Hopeless‚ one of his paintings on miserable women‚ is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel. It was finished by Lichtenstein in 1963. The idea was mainly ‘derived from a frame of "Run For Love!" in Secret Hearts‚ no. 83 by Tony Abruzzo’ (Wikipedia‚ n.d.). Roy Lichtenstein‚ along
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The Modernist movement was more than just an architectural style‚ it represents wider social changes which influenced the designers of the time and remains an ephemeral historical snapshot of what is modern. Roy Grounds was a pioneer within Australian Modern architecture‚ and worked with the changes of the world to urban environments and construction to create progressive designs and does this while still maintaining the same geometric language across a wide scale of work. Often using residential
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Cosi by Louis Nowra conveys significant ideas about human nature. Through the play Cosi‚ the audience witnesses the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Central characters Lewis‚ Doug and Julie each show and express a different view upon the world and work towards their own idea of reality. They each express their individual ideas of the norm and work together to escape reality. Many themes such as love and infidelity as well as change are conveyed throughout the play. Cosi is a comic
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